Unleash Your Willpower: Quotes to Ignite Your Determination - page 68

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self- denial that goes into the acquisition of it.
Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self- denial that goes into the acquisition of it.
 John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.
Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.
 J. William Schickel
Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline
 James Truslow Adams
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Rent Control is not a terrible movie, certainly not for the budget they had. And, again, it's such an '80s kind of thing.
 Brent Spiner
Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.
I've always cared about issues, always thought through problems. I don't know how much that comes from my personality or my mum.
 Lily Cole
For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.
For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.
 Yukio Mishima
To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.
 William Glasser
Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.
 Brendan Behan
When we know something that needs to be done but isn't currently getting done, we often say, I just need more discipline. Actually, we need the habit of doing it. And we need just enough discipline to build the habit.
 Gary W. Keller
The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.